This will be good for you as an employer for what they can accomplish while working for you and for goodwill as they find new places to shine beyond your storefront.

Unless your aim is to deal with antiquities and fine art, you want your customers to come through your doors as frequently ass possible. You’re not trying to sell exquisite or unique things. Your inventory should be ‘good enough’ to differentiate from the completion and become a top choices for your customers when they are needing a similar item or quick fix.

Do you want to dominate conversation in your niche or passively advertise and just be able to tap into the stream every so often? Its all about how you want to play the social media game, not how many hours your social media manger can try to bill you for.

Your 'business' may not and may never be profitable. This might be a good thing.

The key to being a great salesperson is understanding what problems the goods or services you sell can solve for a potential customer. And to not sell to a customer that will get no utility from your goods or services.

The flip side of your staffing success is firing workers that are not a good fit. It is a little ironic that this is easier if you hire workers who don’t mind eventually being fired.

How you promote and market yourself to get more valuable customers should corelate with how you attract competent new hires to work for you.

Remember, they are you competitors and want to beat you whenever possible, but you total failure is a sign of the market crashing, so they don’t wont you to go out of business. But they don’t want you to clear more money than they do.

The best way to learn how to run a business is very simple and non-controversial. Start and run a business.

Stolen from the internet but so true nonetheless. The four key components of success in business (and life in general) come down to how you manage you skill level, how hard you are willing to work, plus the duration of you time in the business, all supercharged by good old-fashioned luck.